I, THEODOR MERON, President of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991 ("Tribunal"),

NOTING the Indictment in The Prosecutor v Vojislav Šešelj, IT-03-67;

NOTING the "Order Assigning a Judge to a Case Before a Trial Chamber" filed 15 December 2003, which assigned this case to a bench within Trial Chamber II:

NOTING the "Prosecution Motion for Joinder" ("Joinder Motion"),
filed 1 June 2005 in The Prosecutor v Jovica Stanišić
and Simatović case, which is currently pending before Trial Chamber
III;

NOTING the "Order Reassigning a Case to a Trial Chamber", filed on 7 June 2005, which transferred this case to Trial Chamber III on the basis that any Trial Chamber that is seised of the Joinder Motion must also be seised of the cases related to the motion in order to dispose of it;

CONSIDERING that Trial Chamber II was seised of a number of motions in this case, which were not disposed off at the time of the transfer to Trial Chamber III, but which were already mature for decision;

CONSIDERING that the Trial management needs of the Tribunal and of this case necessitate Trial Chamber II disposing of those mature motions of which it was properly seised prior to the transfer of this case to Trial Chamber III;

HEREBY ORDER that Trial Chamber II retain jurisdiction over those motions which can be disposed of by 22 July 2005.